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About Adolf Wissel
- Adolf Wissel (19 April 1894 – 17 November 1973) was a German painter.
- He was one of the official artists of Nazism.
- Wissel, who was born in Velber, was a painter in the genre of Nazi folk art, the idea being that these paintings should show the simple, natural life of a farming family.
- The phrase 'union with the soil' best describes the subject of his art.
- Wissel idealised farming life for predominantly urban viewers.
- Exhibitions of paintings of this genre were meant to show the peasants and working class that they were just as good as the wealthy, and that they too deserved a pleasant life.
- These paintings were part of the Nazis' 'blood and soil' campaign, designed to associate the ideas of health, family and motherhood with the country.
- Wissel painted many pictures such as these, but his work contains subtle distortions and accentuations influenced by expressionism.
- He died in Velber in 1973.
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